Port Reports – January 18, 2024

Port Reports – January 18, 2024

Port and vessel activity from Thursday, January 17, 2024, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports and pictures to news@boatnerd.net PORT REPORT  1/18/2024 BAIE COMEAU, CANADA-Tom Geiger 1/17/2024  Amstelborg-DEPARTED-7:16 AM 1/17/2024  Georges ...
Today in Great Lakes History – January 18

Today in Great Lakes History – January 18

1906:  The National Steamship Co. was incorporated January 18, 1906. 1925:  JOHN RUGEE, a wooden steamer in the George Hall Coal Co. fleet, was destroyed by a fire while spending the winter at Ogdensburg. 1938:  The passenger ship WAUBIC was damaged by a fire at...
Boatnerd News – January 17, 2024

Boatnerd News – January 17, 2024

Philip R. Clarke ends 2023-24 Soo Locks season Sault Ste. Marie, MI – The 1952-built steamer Philip R. Clarke, captained by Scott Hein, closed the 2023-24 Soo Locks season when she passed downbound on a sunny but cold Tuesday morning bound from Two Harbors, MN, to...
Port Reports – January 17, 2024

Port Reports – January 17, 2024

Port and vessel activity from Thursday, January 16, 2024, unless stated otherwise. Please send future port reports and pictures to news@boatnerd.net PORT REPORT  1/17/2024 BAIE COMEAU, CANADA-Tom Geiger 1/16/2024  Georges Alebel-11:28 AM 1/17/2024  BBC Georgia-IN PORT...
Today in Great Lakes History – January 17

Today in Great Lakes History – January 17

.1899:  On 17 January 1899, the GERMANIA (wooden propeller freighter, 136 foot, 237 gross tons, built in 1875, at Marine City, Michigan) caught fire and burned to the water’s edge at Ecorse, Michigan. The previous day, Norman Reno of Ecorse did some painting...